Shobhita Sundaram
Graduate Research Assistant
Greater Boston United States
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Top SchoolShobhita Sundaram is a PhD student and graduate research assistant at MIT CSAIL specializing in deep learning and large model research, with eight years of industry and research experience spanning Meta, Google Research, DeepMind, Apple, Two Sigma, and D. E. Shaw. Her work focuses on representation learning, data selection for pretraining, and self-improvement mechanisms for LLMs, blending rigorous academic inquiry with production-minded experimentation. She has contributed to vision and multimodal research (VisCam) and investigated long-range spatial relationships in neural networks during her undergraduate work at CBMM. Comfortable moving between research and engineering, she has built end-to-end systems from REST services to ML pipelines and applied reinforcement learning in quantitative settings. Based in Greater Boston, she maintains an accessible portfolio of her publications and code that showcases both theoretical depth and practical implementations.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Github Skills (18)
representations10
cognitive-science8
multiclass-classification7
computer-vision7
deep-learning6
pytorch6
image-processing6
arxiv5
tensorflow5
machine-learning5
python5
classification4
ray3
generative-adversarial-network3
data-augmentation3
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
ssundaram21/dreamsim
Jun 2023 - Jan 2025
DreamSim: Learning New Dimensions of Human Visual Similarity using Synthetic Data (NeurIPS 2023 Spotlight) / / / / When Does Perceptual Alignment Benefit Vision Representations? (NeurIPS 2024)
Contributions:7 releases, 2 PRs, 44 pushes in 1 year 7 months
ssundaram21/ssundaram21.github.io
Dec 2021 - Mar 2025
Contributions:2 PRs, 157 pushes, 6 branches in 3 years 3 months
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